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Tag Archives: spain
Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading
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Strikes against Capitalism
ParkeHarrison Flying Lesson (2000) The State is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. Gustav Landauer The struggle … Continue reading
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The Roots of Okupation
On November 17th was announced another okupation in Madrid and the creation of a new Self-Managed Okupied Social Centre. The new okupation now carries a name: the CSOA Raíces, or Roots. Roots, because radical, because okupations contest the very foundations … Continue reading
A war without end: The eviction of La Gotera
The fractures of modern society are many. The factory/latifundia of the 19th century have been replaced by the 21st century city as the space of contestation. The proletariat is now inclusive of workers, as well as of the … Continue reading
Rebelling against property: the PAH
The PAH, Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, predating the emergence of 15M in spain has been, with 15M’s neighbourhood assemblies in various cities, been one of the most emblematic protagonists in the popular efforts to resist the power of … Continue reading
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14N: Images, Resonances and Reflections
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of exception" in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this. Then it will become clear that the task … Continue reading
Strike, Rebellion, Revolution continue … new okupations!
In the wake of the general strike of the 14th of November, in the wake of protests, okupations, creations of alternatives under the inspiration of 15M, in the wake of social movements which over the course of years have endeavoured … Continue reading
Freeing the school: Escuela Libre de Soria
"El aprendizaje es la actividad humana que requiere la mínima manipulación de otros, el mayor aprendizaje no es el resultado de la instrucción, es más bien el resultado de la libre participación en un ambiente lleno de significados". … Continue reading
The tides of change: spain’s “mareas”
On the 17th of February, over half a million people took to the streets of spain’s cities in a protest against cuts to the budget of the country’s public health services. It was but only the most recent example of … Continue reading →